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Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng

http://www.utdallas.edu/~ericz

Information Systems and Finance Office: 972-883-5914

Jindal School of Management, SM33

University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX75080 E-Mail: ericz@utdallas.edu

Current Research Interests

Big Data Driven Business Analytics (Methods and Applications) Social Media Analytics (sharing economy, intention mining, opinion manipulation)

Healthcare analytics (clinic waste reduction, risk prediction, wearable devices )

Financial analytics (Fintech, Blockchain, crowdfunding, high-frequency trading)

Education

Ph.D. (May 2003) Operations and Information Management

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

M.S. Department of Industrial Management Engineering

Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)

B.S. Department of Management Information Systems

Harbin Institute of Technology (China)

Employment

University of Texas at Dallas (2006-present)

2018-present, Ashbel Smith professor

2015-2018, Full professor in IS with a joint appointment in Finance

2009-2014, Associate professor in IS

2006-2009, Assistant professor in IS.

Shanghai Jiaotong University

2017- 2018, Visiting Professor; Spring 2012, Visiting Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Fall 2011, visiting Associate professor at the Heinz College

University of California, Riverside

2003-2006, Assistant professor in IS

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Research

Major Journal Publications (In the List of UTD 24 Top Business Journals)

1. Li, Y., Xie, Y., Zheng Z. 2018. “Modeling Multi-Channel Advertising Attribution across

Competitors”, MIS Quarterly，Forthcoming.

2. Yang, M., Zheng, Z., Mookerjee, V. 2018. “Prescribing Response Strategies to Manage

Customer Opinions: A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach”, Information Systems

Research, Forthcoming.

3. Oh, C., Zheng, Z., Bardhan I. 2018. "Sooner or Later? An Integrated Analysis of Health

Information Technology, Length of Stay and Readmission Risk", Production and Operations

Management, 27 (11), 2038-2053. (Nominated for the best paper at CIST 2013)

4. Ayabkan, S., Bardhan, I., Zheng, Z., Kirksey K. 2017."The impact of health information

sharing on duplicate testing”. MIS Quarterly, 41 (4), 1083-1103. (ICIS 2014 best paper

award, runner up)

5. Ayabkan, S., Bardhan, I., Zheng, Z. 2017. "A Data Envelopment Analysis based Approach

for Estimating IT-Enabled Production Capability ", MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 189-205.

6. Chen, H., Z. Zheng, Y. Ceran. 2016. De-biasing the reporting bias in social media analytics.

Production and Operations Management, 25 (5), 849-865.

7. Bardhan, I., Cath Oh, Z. Zheng, K. Kirksey. 2015. "Predictive analytics for readmission of

patients with congestive heart failure: analysis across multiple hospitals", Information

Systems Research, 26 (1), 19-39. (ISR 2016 Best Paper award, Runner up)

8. Zheng, Z., P. Pavlou and B. Gu. 2014. “Latent Growth Modeling in IS Research: Practical

Guidelines and Theoretical Extensions”, Information Systems Research, 25 (3), 547-568.

9. Jabr, W., Z. Zheng, 2014. “Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy: An Analysis of Firm

Recommendations and Consumer Reviews in a Competitive Environment”. MIS Quarterly,

38 (3), 635-654. (Best Paper Award, INFORMS 2010, E-Business Sector).

10. Fichman, R., B. Dos-Santos, Z. Zheng. 2014. “Digital Innovation as a Fundamental and

Powerful Concept in the Information Systems Curriculum”, MIS Quarterly, 38 (2), 329-353.

11. Zheng, Z., Fader, P., Padmanabhan, B. 2012 “From Business Intelligence to Competitive

Intelligence: Inferring Competitive Measures Using Augmented Site-Centric Data”,

Information Systems research, 23 (3), 698-720.

12. Dos-Santos, B., Zheng, Z., Mookerjee, V., Chen. H. 2012. Are new IT-enabled Investment

Opportunities Diminishing for Firms? Information Systems research, 23 (2), 287-305.

13. Zheng, Z., Pavlou, P. 2010. “Toward a Causal Interpretation from Observational Data: A

New Bayesian Networks Method for Structural Models with Latent Variables”, Information

Systems research, 21 (2), pp. 365-391.

14. Weber, T., Zheng, Z. 2007. “A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals”,

Information Systems Research18(4), pp.414-436.

15. Zheng, Z., B. Padmanabhan. 2007. “Constructing Ensembles from Data Envelopment

Analysis”, INFORMS Journal on Computing 19 (4), pp.486-496.

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16. Zheng, Z., B. Padmanabhan. 2006. “Selectively Acquiring Customer Information: A New

Data Acquisition Problem and an Active Learning Based Solution”, Management Science,

52(5), pp. 697-712.

17. Padmanabhan, B., Z. Zheng, S. Kimbrough. 2006. “An Empirical Analysis of the Value of

Complete Information for eCRM Models”, MIS Quarterly, 30(2), 247-267.

18. Zheng, Z., Padmanabhan, B. and S. Kimbrough. 2003. “On the Existence and Significance of

Data Pre-processing Biases in Web Usage Mining”, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 15(2),

148-170.

Other Journal Publications

19. Zheng, Z, Tan Y., Goes, P, Chellappa, R., Wu, D., Shaw, M., Sheng, O., Gupta, A. 2017.

“When Econometrics Meets Machine Learning”, Data and Information Management, 1 (2),

75-83.

20. Banker, R., H. Chang, Z. Zheng. 2017. “On the Use of Super-Efficiency Procedures for

Ranking Efficient Units and Identifying Outliers”. Annals of Operations Research. 250 (1),

21-35.

21. Zheng, Z. 2015. “Introduction to Big Data Analytics and the Special Issue on Big Data

Methods and Applications”. Journal of Management Analytics, 2 (4), 281-284.

22. Yang, M., Guohua Wan and Zhiqiang Zheng, 2014, "A Predictive DEA model for outlier

detection", Journal of Management Analytics, 1 (1), 20-41.

23. Banker, R., Zheng, Z.(Corresponding Author), Natarajan, R. 2010. “DEA-based hypothesis

tests for comparing two groups of decision making units”, European Journal of Operational

Research. 206, 231-238.

24. Fang, C., Kimbrough, S., Valluri, A. and Zheng Z. 2002. “On Adaptive Emergence of Trust

Behavior in the Game of Stag Hunt”, INFORMS Journal on Group Decision and Negotiation,

11(6), 449-467. Supported in part by NSF Grant (number 9709548).

Papers Under Review

“Online-Offline Channel Synergies: How Physical Store Closure Affects Consumer Churn”,

with Gonca and Alejandro Z. Under the 2nd round review at POM.

“Are online physician reviews reliable indicators of clinical outcomes?”, with Danish, Indranil

and Atanu, Under the 2nd round review at ISR.

“Social Influence on the Economic Behaviors of Individuals: Evidence from Mobile Social

Games”, with Paulo Goes, Bin Fang and Qiang Ye. 2nd round review at JMIS.

“Strategic Groups in Sponsored Search: A Consumer Oriented Perspective”. Revise and

Resubmit at Strategic Management Journal.

“Measuring the showrooming effect” with Ying Xie and J. Samuel, Revise and Resubmit at

MISQ.

“Manipulating Consumer Opinion: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing

Economy”, with Cheng Nie and Sumit Sarkar, Under Review.

“Reevaluating Readmission Reduction Policies: The role of Telehealth and Latent Patient Health

Status”, with S. Ayabkan and I. Bardhan. Under review.

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“Competitive structure and consumer reactions in sponsored search advertising”, with Cheng Nie

and Sumit Sarkar, Under Review.

“Managing Firm Product Portfolio”, with Wael Jabr. Under review.

“Are online ratings relative in competitive markets? A mean-field estimation approach”, with

Vijay Mookerjee, Mingwen Yang and Hongyu Chen. Under review.

“Human-Robot Interaction: Investors’ Usage and Performance of Robo-advisors in

Crowdfunding”, with Xuan Tian, Li Liao and R. Ge. Under review.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

“How does online review manipulation influence sales? Evidence from the hotel industry”, with

Cheng Nie and Sumit Sarkar, WITS 2018.

“Unraveling the Effects of Google Search on Volatility of Cryptocurrencies”, with Chee-wee

Tan, Fei Liu and Zhao Cai. ICIS 2018.

“Care Quality, Technology Use, and Online Patient Perception”, with Danish Saifee, Indranil

Bardhan. CIST 2018, ICIS 2018, CHITA 2018, WISE 2018, HICSS2019.

“Are Online Reviews of Physicians Reliable Indicators of Clinical Outcomes? A Focus on

Chronic Disease”, with Danish Saifee, Indranil Bardhan. Best paper award at the Conference

on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA 2017), Washington DC, Nov 2017.

“Do Online Reviews of Physicians Reflect Health Outcomes?”, with Danish Saifee, Indranil

Bardhan, ICSH2017, WISE 2017. Best paper award at ICSH2017.

“Devising Firm Response Strategy in a Competitive Market”, with Mingwen Yang, Vijay

Mookerjee and Hongyu Chen, CIST 2017.

“Incumbents reaction to competition from the sharing economy”, with Cheng Nie and Sumit

Sarkar, CIST 2017.

“Prescriptive Analytics on Firm Response Strategies”, with Mingwen Yang and Vijay

Mookerjee, CSWIM 2017.

“What Drives Patient Readmissions? A new Perspective from the Hidden Markov Model

Analysis”, with Sezgin Ayabkan and Indranil Bardhan, ICIS 2016.

“Manipulating Consumer Opinion: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing

Economy”, with Cheng Nie and Sumit Sarkar, WITS 2016. Nominated for best paper award.

“Demystifying Physician Review: Quality and Clinical Outcome”, with Danish Safai and Indranil

Bardhan, CIST 2016.

“Predictive analytics for multi-channel advertising attribution”, with Yiyi Li and Ying Xie,

CSWIM 2016.

“Quantifying the Value of Local Showrooms in Consumer Search and Purchase”, with Jay

Samuel and Ying Xie, HICSS 49, 2016, POMS2017.

“Competitive Analytics of Multi-Channel Advertising and Consumer Inertia”, AMCIS 2015, with

Yiyi Li and Ying Xie.

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"Can health information sharing reduce duplicate testing? A longitudinal analysis of patient

switching behavior across multiple hospitals”, with Bardhan, I., Ayabkan, S. CSWIM 2014,

CIST2013, WHITE 2013, ICIS 2014, 1st runner up of the best paper award at ICIS 2014.

“How do strategic group impact consumer behavior in sponsored search advertising?”, with

Sumit Sarkar and Cheng Nie, WITS 2014. Acceptance rate (40/106).

"Advertisers’ Competitive Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions -Evidence from the Digital

camera Industry”, with Jing Hao and Sumit Sarkar, Proceedings of HICSS 2013.

"The Impact of IT-enabled Manufacturing Process Capabilities on Plant Profitability: New

Models and Evidence", with Indranil Bardhan and Sezgin Ayabkan. In proceedings of ICIS 2012

and Informs 2012.

"Quicker and Sicker? Length of Stay and Readmission Risk of Congestive Heart Failure

Patients", with Bardhan, I., Oh, C. etc. CIST2012 (nominated for the best paper award) WHITE

2012 and WISE 2012.

"A Profiling model for readmission of patients with congestive heart failure", Bardhan, I., Oh, C.,

Zheng, Z., In proceedings of ICIS 2011 and CIST2011.

“Winning Crowdsourcing Contests: A Micro-Structural Analysis of Multi-Relational Social

Network”, Mo, J., Zheng, Z., Geng, X. Best Paper Award Winner at the Fifth China Workshop on

information Management (CSWIM), Harbin, China, 2011.

“On the Dynamic and Competing Effects of Online Reviews on Sales”, Jabr, W., Zheng, Z. In

Proceeding of WITS2010 (Acceptance rate: 44/113).

“Latent Growth Modeling in IS Research: Its Tenet, Illustration and Practical Guidelines”,

Pavlou, P., Zheng, Z., Gu, B. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information

Systems (ICIS), 2010 (Acceptance rate: 174/803).

“Winning Crowdsourcing Contests: A Multi-Relational Social Network Perspective”, Mo, J.,

Zheng, Z., Geng, X. Presented at the Conference on Information Systems and technology (CIST),

Austin, 2010.

“Does IT Matter, the Evidence”, Dos-Santos, B., Zheng, Z., Mookerjee, V., Chen, H. In

Proceedings of the Fourth China Workshop on information Management (CSWIM), Wuhan,

China, 2010.

“Is IT Really Becoming a Commodity?”, Dos-Santos, B., Zheng, Z., Mookerjee, V., Chen, H.

Complete Research paper, In Proceedings of ICIS, Paris, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 162/800).

“A DEA Approach for Model Combination”, Zheng, Z., Padmanabhan, B. and Zheng, H., 2004.

Proceedings of KDD 2004, August 2004.

“On Active Learning for Data Acquisition”, Zheng, Z., Padmanabhan, B. Proceedings of the

IEEE Conference on Data Mining (ICDM02), 2002. (Acceptance rate: 70/369).

“Personalization from Incomplete Data: What you don’t know can hurt”, Padmanabhan, B.,

Zheng, Z. and S. Kimbrough. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and

Data Mining 2001 (KDD2001),154-264. (Acceptance rate: 20/203).

“On Usage Metric for Determining Authoritative Sites”, Kimbrough, S., Padmanabhan, B. and

Zheng, Z. Proceedings of Workshop on Information Technology & Systems 2000 (WITS 2000).

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Less Refereed Workshops

“Social trading”, with Mingwen Yang and Vijay Mookerjee. 2018, Emory Workshop on

Empirical IS and OM.

“HRTech Engine”, with Jay Samuel and Vijay Mookerjee. 2018 Annual Marketing-IS colloquial

at Fudan University.

“Did the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Achieve the Goals of Triple Aim? Evidence

from North Texas”, with Sezgin Ayabkan and Indranil Bardhan, 2018 Annual Research Meeting,

June 2018, Seattle, WA, PACIS 2018.

“Impact of Telehealth and Patient Health Status on Readmissions”, with Sezgin Ayabkan

and Indranil Bardhan, POMS 2018, Houston.

“Managing Customer Opinions through Direct Responses”, with Mingwen Yang and Mookerjee,

V. and Hongyu Chen. POMS 2016.

“Competitive Analytics for Multi-Channel Multi-touchpoint Ad Attribution”, with Yiyi Li, Ying

Xie, the 1st Sino-US Research Conference on Quality, Analytics and Innovations 2016, Shanghai.

“Health insurance coverage, latent health status and readmissions”, with S. Ayabakan, I. Bardhan.,

WHITE 2014, WISE 2014

“Patient Migration and Duplicate Procedures: A Longitudinal Study of Congestive Heart Failure

Patients in Texas”, with Indranil Bardhan, Sezgin Ayabakan, Kirk Kirksey, Presented at the

Second INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2013

"To Compete or Not: An Empirical Analysis of Advertisers’ Competitive Behavior in Sponsored

Search Auctions”, with Jing Hao and Sumit Sarkar, Poster at WISE2011.

“Determinants of plant performance and profitability: a comparative analysis of Chinese and U.S.

Manufacturing Plants”, with Indranil Bardhan and Sezgin, Presented at WISE2011 (Shanghai).

"A Profiling model for readmission of patients with congestive heart failure", Bardhan, I., Oh, C.,

Zheng, Z., Presented at the 1st INFORMS workshop on Healthcare and 2nd WHITE, 2011.

“Winning Crowdsourcing Contests: An Analysis of the Micro-Structure of Multi-Relational

Networks”, Mo, J., Zheng, Z., Geng, X. WISE 2010 and SCECR 2011.

“On the Dynamic and Competing Effects of Online Reviews on Sales”, Jabr, W., Zheng, Z.

INFORMS 2010, E-Business Sector, 2010.Winner of the Best Paper Award.

“Tutorial on Latent Growth Modeling for IS Applications”, Pavlou, P., Zheng, Z., Gu, B., Dos-

Santos, B. 90-Minute tutorial at AMCIS 2010, Lima, Peru. August 2010.

“Latent Growth Modeling in Information Systems Research: An Application to the Performance

Effects of IT”, Pavlou, P., Zheng, Z., Gu, B. SCECR2010, Austin.

“Mining Twitter’s data for Box Office Prediction”, Hongyu Chen, Zheng, Z. The 6th Information

System Symposium of Big XII, at University of Arkansas, April 2010.

“Mining Movie Blog Data for Box office prediction”, Zheng, Z., Yu, W. Informs2007.

“Inferring firms’ competitive measures from aggregated data”, Zheng, Z., Padmanabhan, B.,

Fader, P. presented at the Bass Conference at UTD in 2007 and INFORMS 2006.

“A Bayesian Network Method for Inferring Causality from Data”, Zheng, Z. and Pavlou, P.

IFORS Conference, Hawaii, 2005.

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“Evolutionary Origin of Trust: A Learning Perspective”, Fang, C., S. Kimbrough, A. Valluri, Z.

Zheng, Academy of Management Conference 2002 (AOM02), Denver.

“A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals”, Weber, T., Z. Zheng Workshop on

Information Systems and Economics (WISE 2002), Barcelona, Spain.

Work In Progress

“Are you paying too much for financial advising? Value of trading information in Social

trading”, with M. Yang and V. Mookerjee (Best paper runer-up at Informs E-Business

Sector)

“Detecting Financial Turnover from Employee Turnovers”, with Bin Gu and Peri-yu Chen.

“ICO valuation”

“Unraveling the Effects of Google Search on Volatility of Cryptocurrencies”, with Chee-wee

Tan, Fei Liu and Zhao Cai. ICIS 2018 version available.

“Care quality, technology use and online patient perception”, with Danish Saifee, Atanu

Lahiri, Indranil Bardhan. HICSS 2019 version available.

“Structural Estimation of Incumbents’ Reactions in the Competition from Sharing Economy”,

with Sumit and Cheng. WITS 2018 version available.

“Gaming to avoid readmission penalty”, with Indranil and Sezgin.

“The War of Standards – the role of essential Patents in the telecommunication industry”.

"The impact of high frequency trading on liquidity quality and investor overreaction".

“Using Wearable Electrocardiography Device to Predict Day-Trader’s Performance”

“Blockchain based Data Exchange”

Teaching Experience

Classroom Teaching at UT Dallas (Last five years)

Term Name Course# : section# # Students Score

S18 Fintech (HKUST) ISOM6000F 32 97/100

S17 Big Data Financial Analytics FIN6V99 16 5.0

S17 Fintech FIN 6368 28 4.9

F16, S17, F17 Advanced BA MIS6334: OW2, OW1, OW1 42, 24, 15 4.7, 4.7, 4.5

F16 Ph.D Seminar on Econometrics MIS 7420 5 4.5

F15, S15, S16 Advanced BI MIS6334: OW1, OW1, OW1 30, 33, 41 4.8, 3.7, 4.6

S15 Big Data Financial Analytics FIN6V99 001 17 4.8

Fall 2014 Advanced BI MIS6334: 001, 501, OW1 50, 63, 33 4.6, 4.0, 4.3

Fall 2014 Ph.D. seminar MIS 7420 6 4.9

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Spring 2014 Advanced BI MIS6334: OL1 and OL2 23, 13 4.6, 4.0

Fall 2013 Advanced BI MIS6334: 501 and 001 60, 34 4.6, 4.1

Fall 2012 Business Intelligence MIS 6324: 501 and 001 111, 49 4.3, 4.3

(Note that UTD’s evaluation score is out of 5 and is based on the median score for the

question – “Overall the instructor was excellent”.)

Classroom Teaching at Other Institutes (During SFDA/Sabbatical)

Institute Term Name Course #

Shanghai Jiaotong Spring 2012 Digital Innovation C120771

CMU (Heinz) Fall 2011 BI with SAS #94825

Curricular Development

1. Created the new finance class “Fintech”, first offered in Spring 2017

2. Created a brand new graduate elective for finance students on “Big Data Financial

Analytics”, first offered in Spring 2015.

3. Co-developed the M.S. in Business Analytics (started in Fall 2014), now with over 1,000

enrolling students.

4. Developed the online class for Advanced Business Analytics (MIS6334 OW1), first offered

in Spring 2014.

5. Developed the SAS Certificate program in Business intelligence and Data mining in 2007, it

was the 2nd such program focusing on analytics in the U.S (after North Carolina State).

6. Created MIS6334, Advanced Business Analytics with SAS in 2008, the second most popular

graduate elective at UTD (with 500+ students in total enrolled in 2017).

7. Created MIS6324, Business Analytics with SAS in 2007. It is the most popular elective class

at UTD, with more than 700 students enrolling each year.

8. Developed the graduate class "Information Technology in Business: A Digital Innovation

Perspective" at Shanghai Jiaotong U. (Spring 2012).

Grants, Awards and Recognitions

Wei Jiang, Xinggang Luo, Zhiqiang Zheng and others, 2018-2022, NSFC grant #71831006,

Service Development and Design Optimization under the Environment of Internet of

Things, RMB 2,530,000 (about $400 K)

Pengzhu Zhang, Zhiqiang Zheng and others, 2017-2021, NSFC grant #91646205, A Study on

Big Data Driven, Panoramic and Personalized Cardio-vascular Health Management,

RMB 2,850,000 (about $410K).

Qiang Ye, Zhiqiang Zheng and others, 2015-2019, China NSF grant on Big Data and Internet

Finance, RMB 3M (about $500,000), #71532004.

Co-PI (With Wael Jabr) for “How to manage your IT product portfolio? Role of Variety and

Maturity”, $67,200 (2013-15), the Canada SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

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Qiang Ye, Bin Gu and Zhiqiang Zheng (Co-applicant), Overseas Cooperation and Exchange Joint

Research Grant (China), 2013-2015, RMB 200,000 (about $33,000)

Co-PI (with Indranil Bardhan) of the grant sponsored by Southwest Medical Center ($25,000 for

2013) for “Patient Migration and Redundant Procedures across Hospitals”,

Co-PI (with Indranil Bardhan) of the grant for the project “A model of Patient Re-admission

Related to Chronic Diseases in North Texas”, sponsored by Southwest Medical Center and DFW

Hospital Council ($40,000 for 2011 and $35,000 for 2012).

2017 ICSH best paper award for “Do Online Physician Reviews Reflect Clinical Outcomes?”

2017 CHITA best paper award for “Are Online Reviews of Physicians Reliable Indicators of

Clinical Outcomes? A Focus on Chronic Disease”.

Best paper award nomination at WITS2016 for the paper " Manipulating Consumer Opinion:

Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing Economy”

2015 best ISR paper award runner up for “Predictive analytics for readmission of patients with

congestive heart failure: analysis across multiple hospitals”

1st Runner-up for the best paper award for ICIS 2014 for “Can health care IT reduce duplicate

testing”

Best paper nomination at CIST 2012 for the paper "Quicker or Sicker?".

Best Paper Award in CSWIM 2011 for the paper "Winning Crowdsourcing Contests"

Best Paper Award in Informs 2010 e-Business section for the paper "On the Dynamic and

Competing Effects of Online Reviews on Sales”

AC Nielsen Netratings funded project on sponsored search at Google.

Yahoo! (Overture) Sponsored project on paid referral for travel and data, 2003-2005.

Project on web usage mining funded by Wharton E-Business Initiative grant (WEBI 2001

&2002) (under Balaji Padmanabhan, $20,000 each year).

Wharton doctoral fellowship, 1998-2002, the Wharton school.

National Distinguished Graduate Student, 1996, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Ziqiang Fellowship (highest honor) only awarded to the number one incoming student among

4000 graduate applicants, 1993, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

Media coverage for the project on analyzing the intrinsic biases in online reviews by the

Consumer Report (September 2013) and the Time Magazine (Sept. 2013) (see

http://business.time.com/2013/09/21/guess-whos-getting-some-pretty-awful-reviews-user-review-

sites/ and http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/09/online-ratings-services/index.htm

Media coverage by Medicalexpress.com (2017), “Study finds length of stay key in hospital

readmission rates”, https://medicalxpress.com/pdf423985459.pdf

Invited Talks (After 2010)

Research Seminar Presentation

Temple University November 2018

Delaware University October 2018

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Xiamen University July 2018

U. of Nottingham (Ningbo, China) June 2018

USTC (China) April 2018

Nanjing U. (China) March 2018

Georgia State U. January 2018

PBSCF, Tsinghua U. (China) January 2018

Tongji U. (China) January 2018

HUST (China) December 2017

Wuhan U. (China) December 2017

KAIST (Korea) December 2017

USF October 2017

UC San Diego June 2017

Renming U. (China) June 2017

CityU of HK (Hongkong) May 2017

HKUST (Hongkong) May 2017

Michigan State University May 2017

University of Texas at Austin April 2016

Shanghai Advance Institute of Finance (China) February 2016

University of Washington April 2015

University of Utah April 2015

University of Maryland March 2014

University of Calgary May 2014

University of Arizona November 2013

Purdue University March 2013

Arizona State University November 2012

Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) January 2011

Special Talks

Keynote Speech, “IT Disruption and Business Education”, JMA Workshop at UNSW

(Australian), December 4, 2017.

Keynote Speech, “Making Healthcare Analytics Relevant”, Inauguration Meeting of Healthcare

Management Track under the Operations Research Society in China, July 21, 2017

ICSH12017 Panel “Healthcare Analytics Research”, Hongkong, June 2017

CSWIM2017 Panel Coordinator “When Econometrics Meeting Machine Learning”, June 2017

IT Teaching Workshop 17, “Teaching Fintech for MBA Core”, at UC Irvine, May 2017

Shanghai Advance Institute of Finance, “Fintech and Big Data Financial Analytics”, Dec, 2016

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Harbin Institute of Technology, “Healthcare Analytics”, IS Ph.D summer camp, July 2016.

Shanghai Jiaotong U., special lecture on “Big Data Healthcare Analytics”, June 2016

University of Texas at Austin, Panelist on healthcare analytics at UT’s workshop on social and

business data analytics, April 2016

Shanghai Jiaotong U., special lecture on “Advanced Empirical Methods in Management

Science?” for the IS/MSci. Ph.D summer camp in China, July 2014 and June 2015.

Harbin Institute of Technology, “The Future with IT”, IS Ph.D research camp, June 2015.

UTD ICDRIA Keynote speech on “Business analytics”, November 2013

Arizona State U., “Building a Business Analytics Program”, November 2012

Southwestern Financial and Economics U. (China), Panel discussion on algorithm trading and

high frequency trading, June 2012.

Recent Services: Editorial, Community and Campus

Senior Editor

Information Systems Research SE 2017-2019

ISR Special Issue Editor on “Fintech” Editor 2018-2019

JMA Special Issue Editor on “Blockchain” Editor 2018

Associate Editor

Informs Journal on Computing AE 2013-2017

Information Systems Research AE 2010-2014

Journal of E-commerce Research AE Since 2006

Journal of management Analytics (JMA) AE Since 2013

MIS Quarterly ad-hoc AE 2015-2017

JMA special issue editor 2014-2015

For the special issue on “Big data methods and applications”

Production and Operations Management special issue SE 2015-2016 For the special issue on “IS and OM Interface”

MIS Quarterly special issue AE 2015, 2017 For the issue “Transformational Issues of Big Data and Analytics in Networked Business” and

“Healthcare Analytics for Chronicle Diseases”

Officer &Membership

Officer for Informs e-Business Community 2009-2010

Member for AIS, ISS& Informs Since 2003

Conference Chairs, AE and PC Members

ICIS 2019 Track “Blockchain and Fintech” Track Chair 2019

ICSH 2018 Program Chair 2018

Informs Workshop on Data Science Founding Chair 2017

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WITS 2017 Best paper award committee 2017

Informs e-Business 2017 Best paper award committee 2017

ICIS 2012 Track “Research methods” Track Chair 2012

ICIS 2011-16 Track “Economics and Value of IS” AE 2011-16

WITS 10-17 Program Committee PC Member 2010-2017

CIST 10-17 Program Committee PC Member 2010- 2017

CSWIM Session Chair 2010, 2016

WISE Session Chair 2012-15

Ad-Hoc Reviewer

MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on

Computing, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, ITM, JECR, Omega, Production and

Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transaction (TKDE), TASE

Campus Services (2014-2018)

Personnel Review Committee since 2016

Master Program Committee since 2014

UTD Senate 2013-14

MBA Admission Committee since 2013

Faculty Recruiting Chair for JSOM 2014

Full professor promotion committee 2016

Doctoral Student Advising

Dissertation Chair: Mingwen Yang (2019), Cheng Nie (Iowa State U., 2018), Jay Samuel (UT

Arlington, 2018), Sezgin Ayabkan (Temple U., 2014), Hongyu Chen (Cal State Long Beach,

2012)

Post-doctoral student advisor: Jeong-Ha Cath Oh (Georgia State U., 2011)

Coauthor and Member of Dissertation Committee: Jing Hao (Match.com, 2010), Wael Jabr

(Georgia State U., 2011), Yasin Ceran (Santa Clara U., 2013), Yiyi Li (U. of Delaware, 2017),

Danish Saifee (U. of Alabama, 2018)

Member of Dissertation Committee: Rajiv Jayant (Facebook.com), Pelin Athan (Ozyegin

University), Hao Xia (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhen Sun (George Washington),

Skills

Computer Languages: R, Python, Perl, Visual Basic, SQL, Java, C/ C++, Matlab, Solidity, Fabric

Statistics Analysis Packages: SAS, Stata, R, SPSS, Jump-In, S-Plus

Business Analytics Packages: SAS Enterprise Miner, RapidMiner, SPSS Modeler, Weka,

CART, SQL Server, XLMiner

Special Packages: Brio/ Oracle, SAP ERP, UCINet, Pajek, UML, ESRI (GIS), Gauss.